[CS-FSLUG] GNU believers

[Leon Brooks]

On Thu, 2 Sep 2004 12:59, Aaron Patrick Lehmann wrote:
> if I attach a rider saying, "To derive
> from my code, you cannot protect your intellectual and commercial
> interests in this code by denying others the right to modify and
> distribute your derivative work," everyone says, "What a great guy!"

More precisely, they add "Now I can use this work, sure in the knowledge 
that it's very difficult to embrace-and-extend it in ways that will 
harm me."

The GPL isn't universally ideal, and many projects (Apache, PostFix, 
BIND, PostgreSQL) get along fine without it. Even RMS, who is 
personally difficult to deal with, has on at least one occasion blessed 
a decision to use a BSD licence instead. However, a backbone of GPLed 
software (Linux, KDE, The GIMP) is vital for keeping the, er, 
fatherless honest, because said fatherless will be with us until Jesus 
returns. We do live in a fallen world, no? Part of our basic theology?

Cheers; Leon

-- 
Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said,
"What do we? for this man doeth many miracles. If we let him thus alone,
all men will believe on him: and the Romans shall come and take away
both our place and nation." -- John 11:46-47, KJV